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After months of training, this elite skydiver says he's ready to leave his chute in the pl... . In this Monday, July 25, 2016 photo, skydiver Luke Aikins jumps from a helicopter during his training in Simi Valley, Calif.
Democrats meeting in Philadelphia have made history, voting to approve a national platform that endorses a "pathway" for the legalization of marijuana. When Vermont independent Sen. Bernie Sanders boasted Monday night that he had helped create "the most progressive platform in the history of the Democratic Party," he made no mention of the pot plank, which calls for "a reasoned pathway for future legalization."
Marijuana legalization has moved from the political fringe to the national mainstream at breakneck speed, minting a whole new class of legal weed millionaires as states to break away from federal prohibition of cannabis. But as the repression and violence of drug war black markets give way to a legitimate economic boom, some states are still trying to work out who exactly may reap the financial opportunities.
Americans' trust in government institutions has plummeted over recent decades. We have experienced huge declines in confidence across the board, including for Congress, the presidency, the Supreme Court, even the Defense Department and the Food and Drug Administration.
PORTSMOUTH – President Barack Obama is expected to sign into law the Comprehensive Addiction and Recovery Act this week, moving forward federal efforts to battle the nation's opioid addiction epidemic. CARA authorizes a comprehensive list of programs intended to help states add recovery services and to strengthen already existing programs.
The Fourth Amendment to the Constitution is crucial to liberty because it protects the "right of the people to be secure in their persons, houses, papers, and effects, against unreasonable searches and seizures." America's founders had just fought a revolution against a tyrant, King George III, whose troops routinely kicked in doors without warrants.
THE Department of Justice has recommended the filing of drug charges against the four Chinese nationals arrested in a floating shabu laboratory in Subic, Zambales last Wednesday. Chinese nationals from Hong Kong, Shu Fook Leung, 49; Kam Wah Kwok, 47; Win Fai Lo, 42 and Kwok Tung Chan 29, will face charges for violating of Section 8 and 11 of the Comprehensive Dangerous Drugs Act.
Much like their House counterparts, Connecticut's Democratic senators pushed for immediate funding aimed at opioid addiction. But in the end, they settled for the Republican majority's measure that puts the money on hold until later this year.
Microsoft won't be forced to turn over e-mails stored in its Ireland data center to the US government for a drug investigation, an appeals court said in a decision that may affect data security throughout the US technology industry. The ruling on Thursday overturned a 2014 decision ordering Microsoft to hand over messages of a suspected drug trafficker.
Britain's Chancellor George Osborne and the UK's former financial watchdog "hampered" the 2012 US investigation into HSBC's money laundering and contributed to a watering down of the banks eventual punishment, according to a damning US congressional report . The Chancellor and the Financial Services Authority warned that a possible criminal prosecution of the bank could lead to "very serious implications for financial and economic stability" and even another "global financial disaster."
After the take-down of Hillary Clinton by FBI Director James Comey after announcing that career investigators at the FBI found no credible evidence of wrongdoing on the part of Hillary Clinton, Matt Miller of the Washington Post wrote, "When FBI Director James B. Comey stepped to the lectern to deliver his remarks about Hillary Clinton on Tuesday, he violated time-honored Justice Department practices for how such matters are to be handled, set a dangerous precedent for future investigations and committed a gross abuse of his own power.
A Washington County judge on Friday gave a 54-year-old man jail time for sticking an object that resembled a gun out the window of his Cornelius home and prompting police to shoot him during an April encounter. Judge Janelle Wipper found Greg Howard Moore guilty of menacing, a misdemeanor, during a bench trial that spanned two days in Circuit Court.
States that legalized medical marijuana -- which is sometimes recommended for symptoms like chronic pain, anxiety or depression -- saw declines in the number of Medicare prescriptions for drugs used to treat those conditions and a dip in spending by Medicare Part D, which covers the cost on prescription medications, according to new research. Because the prescriptions for drugs like opioid painkillers and antidepressants and associated Medicare spending on those drugs fell in states where marijuana could feasibly be used as a replacement, researchers said it appears likely legalization led to a drop in prescriptions.
An off-duty police officer shot and killed a 37-year-old man in front of his girlfriend and two children during a recent road rage incident in Brooklyn, accordin... -- A Wisconsin family is grieving after 19-year-old college student Beau Solomon was found dead in Rome, where he was studying abroad.Solomon, of Spring Green, Wisconsi... U.S. corn and soybean development continued slightly ahead of the average pace this past week. The condition of the corn crop was unchanged while soybean conditions dropped sl... OMAHA, Neb.
An off-duty police officer shot and killed a 37-year-old man in front of his girlfriend and two children during a recent road rage incident in Brooklyn, accordin... -- A Wisconsin family is grieving after 19-year-old college student Beau Solomon was found dead in Rome, where he was studying abroad.Solomon, of Spring Green, Wisconsi... U.S. corn and soybean development continued slightly ahead of the average pace this past week. The condition of the corn crop was unchanged while soybean conditions dropped sl... OMAHA, Neb.
I recently returned from a car trip to Southern California. As I crossed over the state line on Interstate 15, I was met with an large electronic sign stretched across the road reading, "Zero Tolerance Zone."
Five suspects were arrested after being indicted on federal charges related to operating a drug distribution network in the Auburn area. The following suspects were arrested following an investigation by the Federal Bureau of Investigation and the Auburn Police Department: Bradford A. Blount, 25, of Vestavia Hills: Dennis Michael Elder, 26, of Vestavia Hills; Saxon R. Monk, 25, of Washington, D.C.; Randolph D. Ogburn, 64, of Valley; and Lewis Michael James, 57, of West Point, Ga.
Barack Obama has roughly six months left in office. Will he end the country's war on marijuana before the clock runs out? But rapper Prince Ea isn't ready to stop trying.
The family of a North Dakota college student who was a confidential informant for a drug task force filed a wrongful death lawsuit Monday accusing a sheriff's department, a deputy and the county of failing to ensure the 20-year-old's safety. The body of Andrew Sadek was found exactly two years ago in the Red River, which separates North Dakota from Minnesota , not far from where he attended college in Wahpeton.